Friday, June 14, 2019
It is not enough to speak only of reviving the spirit of the gentleman and religion
Edmund Burke's writings
against the French revolution probably had much to do with saving
England from the revolution. He said the spirit of the gentleman and
the spirit of religion made the civilization of Europe, which the
revolution wanted to tear down. It was also a class or caste thing in
England of Burke's time with most gentleman existing in the upper
classes.
But how much of that
spirit of the gentleman and spirit of religion was genetic in origin,
since biology is at the deeper origin of our social behavior? Yes,
there is a co-evolution between genes and culture but biology is the
hardware, culture is the software. As John Cacioppo said, “The
genes are like the keyboard on which the song of life is played, but
the pianist is the social environment.”
I see the spirit of the
gentleman grounded in the warrior and softened or civilized by
religion, almost the way women tend to civilize men. But the balance
here is important, go too far taking the warrior out of man and the
society is vulnerable to other marauding warriors.
Today what is left of the
spirit of the gentleman and the spirit of religion are in the process
of being destroyed, again. It is not only an attack similar to the
attacks of the French revolution, this time self-immolation or
suicide is involved, we are not even breeding faster than we are
dying. Europe and America are opening their borders (and thighs) to
anyone from anywhere. It's even against the law now in many places
to speak of saving the white race.
With the help of radical
feminism, minorities, and the cheering leftist Media we have gone too far in
taking the man out of man, not realizing or not caring that taking
the gentleman warrior out of man leaves us and our societies
virtually undefended against men who do not behave like European or American
gentleman.
Conservatism should be
concerned with conserving the genes of Europe and America which in
the deepest sense were responsible for the spirit of the gentleman and
the spirit of religion that made the civilization of Europe and
America...It is not enough to speak only of reviving the spirit of the gentleman and religion.
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